Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...title.1The unique 1802 Compact between Georgia and the federal government settled Georgia’s claim to its western land beyond the Chattahoochee River in return for a pledge to extinguish Indian title...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
When Chuck Willis released his single "Betty and Dupree" in 1958, he and Atlantic Records wanted to keep teenagers across the country dancing the Stroll. Willis's "C. C. Rider" (1957)...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...stories that imagined the United States as an exclusively white republic unthreatened by the linked nightmares of industrialization and racial equality. Still other writers sought to efface any trace of...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...spirit. If you are interested in the area then you could probably get the same deal on a home in Remington and have a better sense of security and safety....
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...as any. The fluidity of American culture — and I think ultimately region in the United States must be defined not politically or legally but in the most inclusive cultural...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...top-secret materials across the United States. Proud owner of a T-shirt that reads, "I am from Oak Ridge, I glow in the dark," Freeman has been thinking critically about her...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...and that southern metal and cotton products would find commercial opportunities in Far Eastern markets.4William H. Taft, "The Winning of the South," Political Issues and Outlooks: Speeches Delivered Between August,...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...United Methodist Church https://vimeo.com/809593784/9c183f767a McCabe United Methodist Church [27.745772686664253, -82.67140787567607] At McCabe, the unbaptized remnants of Salt Creek disappear into a sewer line, across from the church, at the corner...
Deep Ellum Blues
...soon after the war, and settled in a variety of 'Freedmantowns' around the city. One of these Freedmantowns remained in the far north of the city in my own childhood...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...J. W. Neal slave house was near the city's center market. Even free people of color did not feel safe on DC's streets. From 1852 until 1906, the celebrated free...